Yet Tullius, tis decreed, muft lofe the crown,
For faults, that were his council's, not his own.
He now in vain commands ev'n those he pay'd,
By darling troops deferted and betray'd,

By creatures which his generous warmth had made.
Of these a captain of the guards was worst,
Whose memory to this day ftands accurst.
This rogue, advanc'd to military trust
By his own whoredom, and his fifter's luft,
Forfook his mafter, after dreadful vows,
And plotted to betray him to his foes
The kindeft mafter to the vileft flave,
As free to give, as he was fure to crave.
His haughty female, who, as books declare,
Did always tofs wide noftrils in the air,
Was to the younger Tullia governess,
And did attend her, when, in borrow'd drefs,
She fled by night from Tullius in distress.
This wretch, by letters, did invite his foes,
And us'd all arts her father to depofe;
A father, always generously bent,

So kind, that ev'n her wishes he'd prevent.
'Twas now high time for Tullius to retreat,
When ev'n his daughter haften'd his defeat;
When faith and duty vanish'd, and no more
The name of father and of king he bore :

A king, whose right his foes could ne'er dispute;
So mild, that mercy was his attribute;

Affable, kind, and eafy of accefs;
Swift to relieve, unwilling to opprefs;

Rich without taxes, yet in payment just ;
So honeft, that he hardly could distrust;
His active foul from labours ne'er did cease,
Valiant in war, and vigilant in peace;
Studious with traffick to enrich the land;
Strong to protect, and tkilful to command;
Liberal and fplendid, yet without excess ;
Prone to relieve, unwilling to distress;
In fum, how godlike must his nature be,
Whofe only fault was too much piety!

This king remov'd, th' affembled states thought fit
That Tarquin in the vacant throne should fit;
Voted him regent in their fenate-house,
And with an empty name endow'd his spouse,
The elder Tullia, who, fome authors feign,
Drove o'er her father's corpse a rumbling wain :
But the more guilty numerous wains did drive
To crush her father and her king alive;
And in remembrance of his haften'd fall,
Refolv'd to institute a weekly ball.
The jolly glutton grew in bulk and chin,
Feafted on rapine, and enjoy'd her fin;
With luxury fhe did weak reafon force,
Debauch'd good-nature, and cram'd down remorse;
Yet when she drank cold tea in liberal sups,
The fobbing dame was maudling in her cups.
But brutal Tarquin never did relent,
Too hard to melt, too wicked to repent;
Cruel in deeds, more mercilefs in will,
And bleft with natural delight in ill.

From

From a wife guardian he receiv'd his doom

To walk the Change, and not to govern Rome.
He fwore his native honours to difown,

And did by perjury ascend the throne.

Oh! had that oath his swelling pride repreft,
Rome had been then with peace and plenty bleft.
But Tarquin, guided by deftructive fate,
The country wafted, and embroil'd the state,
Transported to their foes the Roman pelf,
And by their ruin hop'd to fave himself.
Innumerable woes opprefs'd the land,
When it fubmitted to his curs'd command.
So juft was heaven, that 'twas hard to tell,
Whether its guilt or loffes did excell.

Men that renounc'd their God for dearer trade,
Were then the guardians of religion made.
Rebels were fainted, foreigners did reign,
Outlaws return'd, preferment to obtain,

With frogs, and toads, and all their croaking train.
No native knew their features nor their birth,
They feem'd the greafy offspring of the earth..
The trade was funk, the fleet and army spent;
Devouring taxes swallow'd leffer rent;
Taxes impos'd by no authority;
Each lewd collection was a robbery.
Bold felf-creating men did statutes draw,
Skill'd to establish villainy by law;
Fanatic drivers, whose unjust careers
Produc'd new ills exceeding former fears.

Yet

Yet authors here except a faithful band,
Which the prevailing faction did withstand ;
And some, who bravely stood in the defence
Of baffled justice and their exil'd prince.
These shine to after-times, each sacred name
Stands ftill recorded in the rolls of fame.

SUUM

WH

CUIQUE.

WHEN lawless men their neighbours difpoffefs,
The tenants they extirpate or opprefs;

And make rude havock in the fruitful foil,

Which the right owners plough'd with careful toil.
The fame proportion does in kingdoms hold,
A new prince breaks the fences of the old!
And will o'er carcafes and deferts reign,
Unless the land its rightful lord regain.
He gripes the faithlefs owners of the place,
And buys a foreign army to deface

The fear'd and hated remnant of their race.
He starves their forces, and obstructs their trade;
Vaft fums are given, and yet no native paid.
The church itself he labours to affail,
And keeps fit tools to break the facred pale.

Of those let him the guilty roll commence,
Who has betray'd a master and a prince ;
A man, feditious, lewd, and impudent;
An engine always mifchievoufly bent;
One who from all the bands of duty fwerves;
No tye can hold but that which he deferves;
VOL. I.

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An author dwindled to a pamphleteer;
Skilful to forge, and always infincere ;
Careless exploded practices to mend ;
Bold to attack, yet feeble to defend.
Fate's blindfold reign the atheist loudly owns,
And Providence blafphemously dethrones.
In vain the leering actor ftrains his tongue

To cheat, with tears and empty noise, the throng,
Since all men know, whate'er he fays or writes,
Revenge or ftronger interest indites,

And that the wretch employs his venal wit
How to confute what formerly he writ.

Next him the grave Socinian claims a place,
Endow'd with reafon, though bereft of grace;
A preaching pagan of furpaffing fame :
No regifter records his borrow'd name.
Oh, had the child more happily been bred,
A radiant mitre would have grac'd his head :
But now unfit, the most he fhould expect,
Is to be enter'd of T F's fect.

To him fucceeds, with looks demurely fad,
A gloomy foul, with revelation mad;
Falfe to his friend, and careless of his word;
A dreaming prophet, and a griping lord;
He fells the livings which he can't poffefs,
And farms that fine-cure his diocefe.
Unthinking man! to quit thy barren see,
And vain endeavours in chronology,
For the more fruitlefs care of royal charity.

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